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ISMAILIA: Pakistan captain Ammad Butt in action against Austria during their pool match of the FIH World Cup qualifying event on Wednesday. —Courtesy FIH LAHORE: A brace by Abu Bakr Mahmood helped Pakistan defeat Austria 4-2 on Wednesday as the Green-shirts reached the semi-finals of the FIH Men’s World Cup qualifier in Ismailia, Egypt on Wednesday. Pakistan, by winning this match, also topped Pool ‘B’ of the eight-team contest. Besides Abu Bakr, other two goal scorers for Pakistan were Afraz and Mohammad Sufiyan Khan. For Austria, Kellner Maximilian and Scholz Maximilian scored one apiece. Afraz gave Pakistan an early lead…
While Allen and Seifert will receive the majority of the plaudits for their excellent partnership, New Zealand’s bowlers also made a great impact with Matt Henry, Rachin Ravindra and Cole McConchie each picking up two wickets to ensure South Africa’s highly-rated batting lineup were never able to gather much momentum. Allen praised the Black Caps’ bowlers, believing his job was made much easier courtesy of the plans that were carried out during the Proteas’ innings. “Well we just hoped (Mitch) Santner would win a toss to start and he did that. So that was the first part done. And then…
If Lucy Hamilton is handed her Baggy Green at the WACA Ground on Friday, it will be the latest step in what has been a meteoric rise for the teenage fast bowler – but don’t expect the Queenslander to be overawed by the occasion. The unflappable left-armer immediately looked at home on her ODI debut in Hobart last Sunday, unsettling the India top-order in a spell that, while wicketless, was full of promise.Hamilton was initially drafted into the Test squad as a reserve fast bowler, but Kim Garth’s quad injury has opened the door for a debut, where she is…
“We want to be a great team, and winning one is not a great team.” Those are the words of South Australia coach Ryan Harris, who is eyeing consecutive Sheffield Shield titles with a state that has never achieved that feat. A former SA player, Harris did not win a domestic title during his seven-year playing stint with the men in red. And between his move to Queensland in 2008 to his appointment as South Australia head coach in 2024, the state claimed just one trophy – the 2011-12 One-Day Cup title. During that period, every other state won the…
Ellyse Perry is aiming to prove her fitness to play India, while Alyssa Healy could return to the top of the order Australia remain hopeful Ellyse Perry will be fit to play as a specialist batter in the day-night Test against India, after she returned to training at the WACA Ground on Wednesday. Perry missed the ODI leg of the multi-format series with a quad strain and has already been ruled out of bowling if she does feature in the four-day game.The 35-year-old put in a solid stint batting in the nets alongside a running session on Wednesday evening, as…
Jake Lehmann signed a two-year deal with Hampshire in a quest to win more trophies before his career finishes Lehmann’s Shield final century claim over ‘old man’ Darren Jake Lehmann says the decision to sign a full-time contract with English side Hampshire was driven by a desire for more team success and the chance to spread his cricket knowledge to the next generation. County Championship side Hampshire announced they’d signed Lehmann as a local player in December, tying the veteran batter to the club for the 2026 and 2027 seasons. Lehmann qualifies as a local player due to his British…
Finn Allen has unleashed one of the great T20 knocks to power New Zealand into the T20 World Cup final Finn Allen has uncorked one of the great knocks in the history of white-ball cricket to power New Zealand into the T20 World Cup final and in sight of their long-awaited first men’s global white-ball crown. After restricting unbeaten South Africa to a manageable 8-169 in their semi-final, New Zealand motored to a nine-wicket wicket victory off the back of a remarkable unbeaten century off just 33 balls from Allen — the quickest ton in the tournament’s history — at…
Finishing batting innings has not been a problem for England at this T20 World Cup and that is largely down to Will Jacks.The No 7 has been his side’s MVP with four player-of-the-match awards and 191 runs in seven innings at a strike-rate of 176.85. Without Jacks’ 39 not out off 20 balls against Nepal and unbeaten 53 from 22 versus another Associate nation in Italy, England could conceivably have lost those games and been eliminated with a whimper. Head coach Brendon McCullum, already under the pump after the Ashes debacle earlier in the winter, would surely not have survived…
New Zealand skipper Mitchell Santner hailed Finn Allen’s “special”, match-winning century in their T20 World Cup semi-final against South Africa, while the Proteas captain cursed another “bad night” in a knockout match at a major tournament.Allen tonked exactly 100 not out off 33 balls, with both New Zealand’s victory target of 170 and his own ton ticked off in the 13th over as he plundered 24 from the first five balls of Marco Jansen’s set. Jansen had earlier cracked an unbeaten 55 off 30 balls to rescue South Africa somewhat from 77-5 just after the halfway point of their innings…
Finn Allen smashed the fastest T20 World Cup hundred, from just 33 balls, as New Zealand cruised into the final after ending South Africa’s unbeaten run in the tournament with an astonishing nine-wicket thrashing in Kolkata.South Africa had won their first seven matches at this year’s competition, including a seven-wicket rout of New Zealand in their first-round meeting on Valentine’s Day as they extended their head-to-head against the Kiwis to 5-0 in T20 World Cups at that point. But Aiden Markram’s side missed out on successive finals – they finished runners-up to India in the Caribbean in 2024 – after…